Welcome to Blackpast

Welcome to BlackPast

This 6,000 page reference center is dedicated to providing information to the general public on African American history and the history of more than one billion people of African ancestry around the world.  We invite you to explore and use all the resources of BlackPast.

Explore African American History

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Knoxville College (1875- )
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Hattie Canty (1934- )
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Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church, Richmond, Indiana (1836- )
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Richard Durham (1917-1984)

Explore Global African History

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Tirailleurs Sénégalais in the Indochina War (1947-1954)
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Omar Hassan Ahmad al-Bashir (1944- )
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Negritude Movement
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Adama Barrow (1965- )

Perspectives in African American and Global African History

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Slavery in Oregon: The Reuben Shipley Saga
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Arvarh E. Strickland, 1930-2013: An Historian’s Life
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Arkansas Pioneers in Flight: African Americans in Aviation from the Natural State, 1932 to 1953.
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Russia’s Black Entertainment Empresario: The Remarkable Saga of Fyodor Fyodorovich Tomas (Frederick Bruce Thomas)

Special Features & Resources

101 African American Firsts
Genealogy Resources
Major African American Office Holders since 1641
STEM Innovators

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